Apartments eyed for former probation building

The owner of the two-story building at Dolorosa and Calder, which once housed offices for Bexar County adult probation, is looking to convert them into apartments.

Paul Carter, whose family has spent years buying and refurbishing old buildings downtown, said he’s seriously thinking about adding a third floor to the long building and converting the whole thing into a 35-unit apartment building.

“It’s high on the list of possibilities,” Carter said. “It would work very well. It lends itself for that — plenty of parking, good location.”

The former probation office building is probably the least aesthetically pleasing of the buildings the Carter family owns. Others are the Radius Building on Auditorium Circle, the Toltec Apartments nearby, and the Legal Professional Building near the Bexar County Courthouse, which the Carters hope to convert into executive suites.

Carter said the city’s new incentives policy for downtown housing projects is definitely helping him consider pulling the trigger. Click here for the policy in detail.

Carter also owns the land on Commerce Street and Main Avenue, where the historic Wolfson Building stood before burning to the ground in October 2011.

He has put plans for a food truck court there on hold because he’s been fielding requests from potential developers interested in the land, though he said nothing has materialized yet.